Tinderbox

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For other uses, see Tinderbox (disambiguation).

Tinderbox
Release	4 January 2001 (Update)
Members	No
Quest item	No
Properties
Tradeable	Yes
Equipable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Yes
Noteable	Yes
Destroy	Drop
Actions
Backpack	Add to tool belt
Values
Value	1 coin
High alch	1 coin
Low alch	1 coin
On death	Always kept outside Wild
Weight	0.035 kg
Examine
Useful for lighting a fire.
Grand Exchange
Exchange	484 coins (info)
Buy limit	5,000
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Advanced data
Item ID	590
Links	MRID • recipe
FAQ • doc

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The tinderbox is a tool used primarily for lighting fires using the Firemaking skill and lighting light sources such as candles and lanterns. It can be stored on the tool belt.

Obtaining tinderboxes

Purchase

The average spawn rate at a general store for the full stock 10 tinderboxes is 9 minutes and 10 seconds. This means the first spawn is 10 seconds after all the tinderboxes have been bought, and one minute per every other tinderbox.

Tinderbox spawns

• Top floor of Draynor Manor near Professor Oddenstein's machine
• By the wardrobe in Captain Dulcin's ritual room in the Black Knights' Fortress
• On the wrecked ship on the north of Harmony Island
• Next to furnace in the eastern wilderness ruins
• Searching certain shelves of the Wise Old Man's home gives a tinderbox, possibly book(s) and a message questioning why he keeps so many tinderboxes. This is likely due to Dionysus's eventual assault upon the Wizards' Tower. Though it is possible to quickly obtain multiple tinderboxes from it, your character will only take one at a time, and only if your inventory has none; this can be easily bypassed through the drop trick.

Other sources

They can be obtained from a Tool store 2 in a Player-owned house workshop.

Use with skills

In addition to Firemaking, it is also used in Summoning as the tertiary ingredient of a pyrelord. It is also used in Construction to create certain objects such as a flame pit in an oubliette. It is also used in Invention to create a pyro-matic.

Store locations

This is an auto-generated list (update now). For help, see the FAQ.

Seller	Location	Cost	Currency	Base stock	Members?
Aemad's Adventuring Supplies	East Ardougne	1	Coins	10
Al Kharid General Store	Al Kharid	1	Coins	10
Ali's Discount Wares	Al Kharid	1	Coins	10
Arhein's Store	Catherby	1	Coins	10
Aurel's Supplies	Burgh de Rott	1	Coins	10
Beefy Bill's Supplies	North of Lumbridge	1	Coins	10
Bolkoy's Village Shop	Tree Gnome Village	1	Coins	10
Dal's General Ogre Supplies	Gu'Tanoth	1	Coins	10
Dodgy Derek's Dirty Deals	Thieves' Guild	1	Coins	10
Dorgesh-Kaan General Supplies	Dorgesh-Kaan	1	Coins	10
Dwarven Shopping Store	Dwarven Mine	1	Coins	10
Edgeville General Store	Edgeville	1	Coins	10
Falador General Store	Falador	1	Coins	10
Frenita's Cookery Shop	Yanille	1	Coins	10
General Store (Canifis)	Canifis	1	Coins	10
Gift Shop	Oo'glog	1	Coins	10
Goods of Menaphos	Menaphos	1	Coins	10
Gunslik's Assorted Items	Keldagrim	1	Coins	10
Ifaba's General Store	Ape Atoll	1	Coins	10
Ignatius's Hot Deals	Northeast of the Sorcerer's Tower	1	Coins	60,000
Jiminua's Jungle Store	Tai Bwo Wannai, Karamja	1	Coins	10
Karamja General Store	Musa Point (Karamja)	1	Coins	10
Khazard General Store	Port Khazard	1	Coins	10
The Lighthouse Store	Lighthouse	1	Coins	10
Lletya General Store	Lletya	1	Coins	10
Lumbridge General Store	Lumbridge	Free sample	-	1
Lumbridge General Store	Lumbridge	1	Coins	10
Mess Sergeant Ramsey's Cooking Supplies Shop	Taverley	1	Coins	10
Miltog's Lamps	Dorgesh-Kaan	1	Coins	10
Miscellanian General Store	Miscellania and Etceteria Dungeon	1	Coins	10
Moon Clan General Store	Lunar Isle	1	Coins	10
Nardah General Store	Nardah	1	Coins	10
New Varrock General Store	New Varrock	1	Zemomark	10
Obli's General Store	Shilo Village (location)	1	Coins	10
Papa Mambo's Shop	Herblore Habitat	1	Coins	10
Polypore Dungeon Supplies	Polypore Dungeon, first level	1	Coins	2
Port Phasmatys General Store	Port Phasmatys	1	Coins	10
Quartermaster's Stores	Tyras Camp	1	Coins	10
Razmire General Store	Mort'ton	1	Coins	10
Rimmington General Store	Rimmington	1	Coins	10
Sigmund the Merchant (shop)	Rellekka	1	Coins	10
Survival Shop	Anachronia	1	Coins	10
Trader Stan's Trading Post	Ports with charter ships	1	Coins	10
Trader's Goods	Darkmeyer	1	Coins	10
Varrock General Store	Varrock	1	Coins	10
Void Knight General Store	Void Knights' Outpost	1	Coins	10
West Ardougne General Store	West Ardougne	1	Coins	10
Zanaris General Store	Zanaris	1	Coins	10

Products

This is an auto-generated list (update now), and shows the first 100 items alphabetically. For all items, click here.

Item	Skills	Materials	GE price
Flame pit	77	125000 × Coins 20 × Tinderbox	N/A
Pyrelord pouch	46	1 × Pouch 111 × Spirit shards 1 × Crimson charm 1 × Tinderbox	1,966
Pyro-matic	22	1 × Tinderbox 80 × Flexible parts 60 × Base parts 6 × Ethereal components 4 × Imbued components	N/A

Drop sources

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here (include RDT).

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Alexis	28	1	Uncommon
Barrel (Viyeldi caves)	N/A	1	Uncommon
Boris	28	1	Uncommon
Borrokar	39	1	Common
Cave bug		1	3/128
Cave goblin guard		1	Common
Cave goblin guard		1	Common
Cave goblin miner	7	1	Common
Cave goblin	1	1	Uncommon
Cave goblin		1	Uncommon
Dagannoth (Waterbirth Island)	78; 79	1	10/128
Eduard	28	1	Uncommon
Freidir	39	1	Common
Galina	28	1	Uncommon
General Stall		1	9/27
Giant Rock Crab	95	1	Common
Guard (cave goblin) Spear	58	1	Common
Guard (cave goblin) Club	58	1	Common
H.A.M. Guard	30	1	Common
H.A.M. Member (female)		1	Unknown
H.A.M. Member (male)		1	Unknown
Imre	28	1	Uncommon
Irina	28	1	Uncommon
Jeroen	28	1	Uncommon
Joseph	28	1	Uncommon
Ksenia	28	1	Uncommon
Lanzig	39	1	Common
Lensa (Rellekka)	39	1	Uncommon
Lev	28	1	Uncommon
Liliya	28	1	Uncommon
Milla	28	1	Uncommon
Nikita	28	1	Uncommon
Nikolai	28	1	Uncommon
Ogre coffin	N/A	1	Uncommon
Rock lobster	100	1	Common
Sofiya	28	1	Uncommon
Spirit impling jar	N/A	10–28 (noted)	Unknown
Spirit impling	54	10–26 (noted)	Unknown
Svetlana	28	1	Uncommon
Vera	28	1	Uncommon
Werewolf	63; 89	1	Uncommon
Zombie	11; 12; 14; 22; 29; 72; 74; 75; 77; 78; 79; 82; 84; 85	1	Uncommon

Item spawns

• Castle Wars - 1^st floor^[UK]2^nd floor^[US] (2 spawns)
• Near the Dwarven Mine ladder
• Black Knight's Fortress - 3^rd floor^[UK]4^th floor^[US]
• Draynor Manor - 2^nd floor^[UK]3^rd floor^[US]
• Near the Chaos Altar
• Meiyerditch - 2^nd floor^[UK]3^rd floor^[US]

Disassembly

Tinderbox
Disassembly category	Default disassembly items
Disassembly XP	0.1
Item quantity required	1
Material count	1
Base junk chance	?  98.9% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 98.9% 1 34 98.0 2 49 96.0 3 64 94.0 4 69 92.0 5 78 90.0 6 83 87.1 7 91 85.1 8 95 82.1 9 105 79.2
Common materials
Simple parts	99/100
Rare materials
Variable components	1/100

Graphical updates

• 

  Tinderbox after 29 March 2004 (update)

• 

  Tinderbox after 14 July 2008 (update)

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included - see here for how to help out!

• update 4 January 2001 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• The tinderbox had a graphical update on 14 July 2008. Its old form can still be seen on the shelves and counter in the Varrock General Store.